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We’ve all been there. You know, those moments when certain songs on your phone or iPod that just get to you in the mood that you’re in; and I’m in a particularly dangerous one. So here, I unleash the songs that refuse to leave me alone at the moment. I’ve omitted Adele because she’s tend to become a given for things such as these and I think she needs to calm down now.

Some of these aren’t necessarily sad, or heart breaking songs, but certain words or lines will be apt:

*The Police – Message in a Bottle: “Rescue me before I fall into despair… I hope that someone gets my…”

Good on you for this one, Mr Somner! “Only hope can keep me together… Love can mend your life, but love can break your heart”

That ambivalent feeling where you are torn between what to feel and what you do feel. It’s a bitch on the arms being pulled from either side like that.

*Letters to Cleo – I Want You To Want Me: “I need you to need me… I love you to love me… I’m begging you to beg me”

That frustration when someone just won’t… just won’t… I don’t even know! You just want them to GET IT. Halloooo, I’m right here!

This is the one that, to me redeemed Britney to critics and silenced the haters. “I make believ that you are here, it’s the only way that I see clear” This one was veering dangerously towards the Adele school of song; and seven years before Adele even began to croon us about people like us.

You know, when you go back and back and back and nothing works or helps, but “[Y]ou’re the only thing that’s on my mind”

*Boston – More Than a Feeling: “I close my eyes as you slip away… I see my Marianne [or fill in the blank as you see fit] walking away”

Anytime a man can reach a note like this and for that long, I am well and truly impressed. And yes, it is more than a feeling when you your Marianne walking away.

*Band of Horses – No Ones Gonna Love You: “We are the ever living ghost of what once was”

“Did anything to make you smile… it is a better side, of you to admire”

This one makes me smile in a melancholic way. You know when you try wishing harm on someone and getting into an angry phase and your heart just prevents you? No?! Play. This. Song.

The haunting and potentially whiny voice is what makes this one work. Yissus I can’t get enough – “Heaven is a place on Earth with you” The nostalgic feel of this one makes my mind wander like a lost dog.

*Macy Gray – Still: “So why say bye bye, when it only makes me cry?”

Perfectly sums up dysfunction. “…lovin’ you baby and it’s much too much”

*Aqua – Doctor Jones: Seriously! Give it a chance and read on (without the Eurodance beat). I could convince you yet. “Sometimes the feeling is right, you fall in love for the first time… ”

When you want that one person and you seem to be lifetimes apart, not only physically.

“All I think of is you and all of the things we had…”

That one was a hard sell, but there’s some good stuff in there! Really, there is! Oh, sod off all of you. Moving on…

*Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time: “Suitcase of memories” A perfect description of my muddled mind and idiotic hopefulness.

“If you’re lost you can look and you will find me…”

*Kelly Clarkson – Already Gone: “Remember all the things we wanted? Now all our memories are haunted… we were always meant to say goodbye”

Not too regretful, but it gets the message across. But then there’s this one…

*Lady Antebellum – All We’d Ever Need: “I should have been chasing you… You should have been trying to prove”

This one speaks to me like a boxer punching me in the face -sharp jabs, without the (physical) pain. Keeping things, keeping things inside, hiding, “but if you’re happy, I’ll get through somehow, but the truth is, I’ve been screaming out.”

This one is for people who try acting strong at their own detriment. We all know someone like this. Many of us are this person! Do not be this person. I am this person.

*Johnny Cash – You Are My Sunshine: “My only sunshine… you make me happy when skies are grey… you’ll never know dear, how much I love you… please don’t take my sunshine away”

There’s a lot of weather on this list! But another genius way to relate feelings. I bow at your feet Mr Cash.

So there it is, my heart bloodying a silver platter. I hope that these won’t be on rotation for too long and that I can move on to happier things. Although I doubt it. For now, I’m here, embracing the mock. Still blessed, messed, fessed, not in jest and just generally other “es” words. Für dich.